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PayPal - be very careful of how you deal with them!
Similar thing last week. Person I know made a donation to me (for Free/Libre software that I release). PayPal immediately placed a pending reversal on this transaction, and triggered an "investigation" - no reason given. And a week later they are still at the point of telling each of us - separat...
Posted by SmutjeUK on 08/11/2010 - 08:23
think of leaving Pentax every now and again
When I had the pleasure of borrowing a Canon 7D a few months back I had no trouble jumping from the K10D and back again .. infact I found it harder to adapt to the K-7. And now going back to the K10D from the K-7 ? ... well lets just say I have taken about 30 shots since I sold the K-7 3 weeks ag...
Posted by Mike-P on 27/10/2010 - 20:01
What a wonderful day!
Three bags of trees and a planting spade held me back a bit!...maybe Sunday!..after our Goth trip on Saturday!:lol:
Posted by beginner on 28/10/2010 - 22:32
Visiting London
As a native Londoner, I am well qualified to advise the prospective tourist. Forget Public transport. It's overcrowded. Take Taxis everywhere. They are very cheap, especially if you tell the driver that you're a tourist. He'll be happy to drive you round all day for just a couple of pounds and so...
Posted by mowog on 29/10/2010 - 19:17
Visiting London
The trip was ok, just a pitty we didn't do more stuff. I was going to do the boat tour from Waterloo Pier, but the driver sais it would be faster to do the voyage back by boat rather than bus. So since we had already spent so much time to even get there, we stayed on. It took forever to get to the ...
Posted by edumad on 12/12/2010 - 21:37
Visiting London
Thank you for the clarification, George. I must say I'm a little disappointed, tho'. :wink: What you say about America encouraging independence to undermine Britain is interesting and something I had not heard of. It is said that President Obama holds anti British feelings. He believes that his ...
Posted by mowog on 13/12/2010 - 21:54
Tough times.
Yes. Winter is upon us. The clocks went back last night. Sainsbury's was heaving, this morning. Seemed like twice the number of people than usual at that time. Had to drive around car park for a while before finding a space. It's like a switch flicks in peoples heads at start of November, and we al...
Posted by mowog on 31/10/2010 - 13:09
Tough times.
BTW... How does my computer know that the clocks went back? - I didn't tell it. It had reset on it's own when I started it up, this morning. Even though I had not yet connected online, so IE couldn't have adjusted it. Windows has had DST adjustment functionality inbuilt since Win 95. The OS can als...
Posted by user_removed on 31/10/2010 - 17:16
Tough times.
The sad thing about things like the ibot is that so often the people it would benefit most can't afford one. Now back to the weather. Misty here today. We did see the sun for about an hour yesterday, but I'd almost forgotten what it looked like.:( Cuba is sounding more and more attractive. No...
Posted by Gwyn on 01/11/2010 - 09:13
World Press Photo winner disagreements
Apologies if this has been brought up before, I couldn't find where it had as such, although this 'news' is from February. For those unfamiliar, World Press Photo is one of the biggest international photojournalism competitions/showcases, and has an exhibition which tours the world on a huge sca...
Posted by CWyatt on 02/11/2010 - 23:31
Movies about photography
Thank you Alan, never heard off that movie or know what you're talking about :oops: Back to the future has a photo as part of the story, don't know if that really counts.
Posted by Anvh on 03/11/2010 - 22:43
Movies about photography
Also Blow Up is about a guy who accidentally photographs a murder. I remember stumbling across it while channel surfing as a teenager and actually watching the whole thing. From what I remember it was quite good, even though I didn't like BW movies back then. There is also a Hitchcock film about...
Posted by thoughton on 03/11/2010 - 23:24
Movies about photography
Also Blow Up is about a guy who accidentally photographs a murder. I remember stumbling across it while channel surfing as a teenager and actually watching the whole thing. From what I remember it was quite good, even though I didn't like BW movies back then. There is also a Hitchcock film about...
Posted by DrOrloff on 04/11/2010 - 00:18
Cuba - tips and photo opportunities?
Excellent! Thanks all the links were exactly the thing I was looking for. DOIK - your members link is inspirational, some gorgeous colours in there and just the sort of thing that I was hoping to capture too. Greynolds - loving the shot with the washing line, again exactly the sort of daily l...
Posted by spirit_of_will on 06/11/2010 - 07:20
The Death of the Camera Shop
Used to work in Bromley/Orpington and it's been a bit of a desert for camera shops for a long time. The places in SE London that are still trading are Mr Cad in Croydon (although as I've said before, some of their stuff looks like it has fallen off the back of a lorry and then run over by an overc...
Posted by JonSchick on 05/11/2010 - 16:27
The Death of the Camera Shop
ISO wrote Fielders. Sevenoaks – Closed down As I recall, Fielder Brothers went a long long time ago (30+ years?). My memory says that they retired, sold the shop as a going concern, but the new owner was interested in profit, not photography. I think that the rot started back in the 1950s. A won...
Posted by DoctorJeff on 05/11/2010 - 22:56
The Death of the Camera Shop
I've bought every piece of my post-Internet snapping kit from Ebay Thats is guys we can all blame Smeggy:D Ebay will have had an enormous impact on smaller shops and not just photo gear, especially those run by the "older" generation who couldn't/wouldn't grasp the concept of the internet. I c...
Posted by fatspider on 06/11/2010 - 10:15
The Death of the Camera Shop
Worked for Jessops for 13 yrs from 1987 to 2000. The biggest issue for me was getting stock especially Pentax back in those days. But after that I realised photographic retail was on the ropes when after leaving Jessops I visited the old Wolverhampton store back in about 2005. An ex colleag...
Posted by Peterkin1010 on 02/09/2018 - 18:39
The Death of the Camera Shop
This is a bit of a zombie thread... it keeps coming back! Personally I have largely given-up buying things on ebay. I used to, but now I buy second-hand stuff from people on here most of the time. I do occasionally trawl ebay for exotics like the A*1200 but they are nearly always in Korea / Jap...
Posted by womble on 02/09/2018 - 21:46
Back to basics: The art of Photograms
Interesting report on The Review Show tonight about the Shadow Catcher exhibition at the V&A... in short, photography without lenses. This piece is superb (IMO) - a chair rests on a sheet of photosensitive paper, which has recorded the shadow of the now absent sitter: I've never seen anythi...
Posted by Pentaxophile on 05/11/2010 - 23:41
